SEHE 144S: Modern U.s. Consumer Culture

2025-26

Units: 5

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; extra reading, 3 hours

Catalog page 600

Prerequisites: restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior; or consent of instructor

Description: Examines the history of mass consumer culture in the United States. Includes the shift from mass production to mass consumption; the grown in advertising and marketing; relationships of race and gender to the market; impacts on built and natural environment; rise of logistics; and waste.

Cross-listing: Cross-listed with HISA 119S.

Credit: Credit is awarded for one of the following HISA 119S, SEHE 144S, HISA 119, or SEHE 144.